Monday July 28
Sports Over Politics
Lance Armstrong's amazing win of a 5th-straight Tour de France puts him in the ranks of the immortals. Yet it also reveals that sports transcends politics even in these dark days of war and terrorism.
The specter of Armstrong battling adversity to win a fifth Tour seemed to endear him a bit more to French cycling fans, who have always respected, but never loved, him. And despite the differences over policies on Iraq that drove the governments of Washington and Paris apart in the spring, there was little anti-Americanism evident among the tens of thousands who packed the Champs-Elysees.
Posted by glenn at Johny English
He's dumb in the way that Peter Sellers was in the Pink Panther series, but the film Johnny English is a real side splitter. Watch out for the scene with the muscle relaxants.